FL vs. SCVL, DBI, BOOT, PZZA, EAT, ARHS, PLAY, BKE, ODP, and ARCO
Should you be buying Foot Locker stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Foot Locker include Shoe Carnival (SCVL), Designer Brands (DBI), Boot Barn (BOOT), Papa John's International (PZZA), Brinker International (EAT), Arhaus (ARHS), Dave & Buster's Entertainment (PLAY), Buckle (BKE), ODP (ODP), and Arcos Dorados (ARCO). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Shoe Carnival (NASDAQ:SCVL) and Foot Locker (NYSE:FL) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, profitability, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation and institutional ownership.
Shoe Carnival presently has a consensus target price of $36.50, suggesting a potential upside of 6.29%. Foot Locker has a consensus target price of $24.94, suggesting a potential upside of 16.75%. Given Shoe Carnival's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Foot Locker is more favorable than Shoe Carnival.
Foot Locker received 992 more outperform votes than Shoe Carnival when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.00% of users gave Foot Locker an outperform vote while only 66.44% of users gave Shoe Carnival an outperform vote.
Shoe Carnival has a beta of 1.56, suggesting that its stock price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Foot Locker has a beta of 1.43, suggesting that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Shoe Carnival has a net margin of 6.24% compared to Shoe Carnival's net margin of -4.04%. Foot Locker's return on equity of 13.17% beat Shoe Carnival's return on equity.
Shoe Carnival has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Foot Locker. Foot Locker is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Shoe Carnival, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Foot Locker had 15 more articles in the media than Shoe Carnival. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Foot Locker and 2 mentions for Shoe Carnival. Foot Locker's average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Shoe Carnival's score of 0.16 indicating that Shoe Carnival is being referred to more favorably in the media.
66.1% of Shoe Carnival shares are held by institutional investors. 34.5% of Shoe Carnival shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Foot Locker shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Shoe Carnival beats Foot Locker on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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